2 years, 2 months ago
What should the sentences be for the teens who harrassed Phoebe Prince?
9 teens have been arrested and charge with various crimes. Two of the young men were charged with statutory rape, and several were charged with several felonies. What sentences do you think they should receive, and do you think that their prosecution and trials will help to stop teen bullying in the schools?
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I have the same dilemma. Will it really do any good to put them in jail? I'm torn. On the one hand, having been teased and bullied in school myself, and having some pretty serious psychological scars from it, I want to see them locked away for a long time. On the other hand, they are already vicious, so what good would it do but make them more vicious when they get out?
I guess what bothers me about the case is that they showed no remorse after she died, and were joking about it afterwards. That to me just indicates a real sickness in these kids that I don't think can be cured.
I guess what bothers me about the case is that they showed no remorse after she died, and were joking about it afterwards. That to me just indicates a real sickness in these kids that I don't think can be cured.
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Kids are Vicious!
I saw a documentary on the History channel once a while ago about what would happen if the world as we knew it became chaos. Gov'ts fell, people resorted to looting and stealing to survive and in killing each other to see those means, but what stuck me and why I'm telling you about this scenario, is during that documentary they said children would have the least mental strain of killing a person. It would come to them easy!
Now mind you as of now we don't live in the apocalyptic situation, but when I think about high school, metaphorically its sound. Everyday I remember trudging into school, there was so much to worry of: My status, my popularity, how people interacted with me, taking critism, giving it, shananagans in class (+1 popularity on everything funny thing it did). School is a game, some people lose, some people win. Without the challenges that societies children press on you, would you be the same person? So, I argue that YES bullying is bad, but having been bullied about my weight all through school, it definitely has a better impact on me, than if I kept eating and getting obese and dying. And it also built up my character!
But in terms of this single case against teen bullying? I advocated that bullying will never be thwatted. If your the mother of a boy thats been picked on, sorry that's just how it is, but give him a hug and everything will get better, at least in theory. But those nine teenagers did some adult crimes, so what's the options? 1. Put um in jail and when they emerge they are hardened criminals looking to make money and struggle through life, finally leading once again to crime just to survive and than being thrown in jail again? or 2. Let's try and reeducate them, something went wrong. Bad up-bring? Too much drugs? Alcoholic abusive parents?
I want to live in a world where we identify the problem and attempt to think of something logic to say rather than yeah let's just do the same thing we been doing, cause that seems to be working. So in the modern day, they'll probably get 3-6 years, but is sticking them in a cell really the proper thing to do with young adults?
I saw a documentary on the History channel once a while ago about what would happen if the world as we knew it became chaos. Gov'ts fell, people resorted to looting and stealing to survive and in killing each other to see those means, but what stuck me and why I'm telling you about this scenario, is during that documentary they said children would have the least mental strain of killing a person. It would come to them easy!
Now mind you as of now we don't live in the apocalyptic situation, but when I think about high school, metaphorically its sound. Everyday I remember trudging into school, there was so much to worry of: My status, my popularity, how people interacted with me, taking critism, giving it, shananagans in class (+1 popularity on everything funny thing it did). School is a game, some people lose, some people win. Without the challenges that societies children press on you, would you be the same person? So, I argue that YES bullying is bad, but having been bullied about my weight all through school, it definitely has a better impact on me, than if I kept eating and getting obese and dying. And it also built up my character!
But in terms of this single case against teen bullying? I advocated that bullying will never be thwatted. If your the mother of a boy thats been picked on, sorry that's just how it is, but give him a hug and everything will get better, at least in theory. But those nine teenagers did some adult crimes, so what's the options? 1. Put um in jail and when they emerge they are hardened criminals looking to make money and struggle through life, finally leading once again to crime just to survive and than being thrown in jail again? or 2. Let's try and reeducate them, something went wrong. Bad up-bring? Too much drugs? Alcoholic abusive parents?
I want to live in a world where we identify the problem and attempt to think of something logic to say rather than yeah let's just do the same thing we been doing, cause that seems to be working. So in the modern day, they'll probably get 3-6 years, but is sticking them in a cell really the proper thing to do with young adults?
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Was trying to post this as a comment to anarchistrewinds. Don't know why it showed up as another answer..shouldn't be able to do that.